Module 12 Video Review

I chose the video on Andy Warhol and the video on Henry Moore because I have heard of the two, but have not learned much about either. Warhol's artworks are always very interesting and I'd like to learn more.

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image

This video focuses on the life of Andy Warhol. He had an untimely death in 1986. He was a commercial artist before he became a famous painter. He reproduced Campbell's soup cans with stencils and acrylic paint. He used the silk screen effect on Marilyn Monroe and multiplied it many times and this is what made him famous. He colored them and discolored them, which is what he did with a lot of his works. He became fascinated with Elizabeth Taylor and produced a silk screen image of her too. Warhol filmed too and made around 100 films. He added paint to silk screen images and that is what made him his money.

The book talks about Warhol's fascination of Marilyn Monroe and how he created works of her after she died. The video takes this fascination a step farther and tells of how Warhol became famous because of Marilyn Monroe and the way he transformed one simple image of her into many.

The Art of Henry Moore:

Henry Moore explored the human figure in forms that were natural for sculpting and painting in the 19th century. He believed that beauty is a deeper concept than perfection. As a child Moore always wanted to be a sculptor and he believed that too many people focused on his upbringings of coal mining. He always drew, everything. He was obsessed with the figures of mother and child, which was one of his themes, the reclining figures.

The book does not talk about Henry Moore, but Henry Moore had his own artistic style, as did Warhol. Both having artistic style makes them both unique.